The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 14

For he had made up his own mind that when he or any of his family heard that voice they would pay no heed to it, however loudly it called.

Who acts: voice · What happens: make up, hear, pay, call, mind · To what, where: own mind, heed, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 called	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mind	amod
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 heard	obj
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 heard	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 any	cc
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 he	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 family	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 family	nmod:poss
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 any	nmod
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mind	acl:relcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 pay	mark
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pay	nsubj
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pay	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pay	aux
22	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 heard	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 heed	det
24	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pay	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pay	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
28	however	however	ADV	_	29 loudly	advmod
29	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	31 called	advmod
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 called	nsubj:pass
31	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make up	past · perfect	voice	voice's own mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	voice	voice's own mind			tree rules
3	pay	would	voice	no heed	family		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
4	call	participle · passive		family		loudly property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	mind		voice				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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